Tag: Walmart

Companies that issue prepaid cards will have to provide new consumer protections, consumer bureau says. (AP Photo/Swayne B. Hall)

New rules coming for increasingly popular prepaid cards

Joseph Lawler · October 5, 2016 4:34 am

The agency helped Walmart's 2011 effortsto buy a South African retailer despite local unions' opposition. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

Emails detail State Dept. effort under Clinton to aid Walmart

Sean Higgins · September 8, 2016 4:01 am

Hillary Clinton has sought to distance herself from Walmart's Walton family in recent years and has returned donations from the company in the past after they became controversial. (AP Photo)

Walmart’s Walton family backing Clinton

Sean Higgins · September 7, 2016 9:56 pm

The measure in question would repeal the "Durbin Amendment" to the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform law that placed caps on debit card transaction fees. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, file)

Walmart, Kroger, Home Depot warn House GOP on banking bill

Joseph Lawler · September 6, 2016 7:53 pm

The Washington Post reports that Washington Teachers' Union President Elizabeth Davis called the Walmart promotion a "cynical coverup." Other union members called it "deceitful" and "bogus." (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Teachers’ union mad Walmart wants to give teachers free supplies

Jason Russell · August 15, 2016 7:31 pm

The Prime of Amazon’s Life

Irwin M. Stelzer · July 23, 2016 4:01 am

SeaWorld President and CEO Joel Manby, left, and Wayne Pacelle, President and CEO of The Humane Society of the United States, are interviewed in New York, Thursday, March 17, 2016. Finally bowing to years of public pressure, SeaWorld announced that it will immediately stop breeding killer whales, and soon stop making them perform theatrical tricks. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Washington Secrets

After SeaWorld win, Humane Society warns others are ‘ripe for disruption’

Paul Bedard · April 18, 2016 4:27 pm

The split followed reports of internal friction at UFCW over the anti-Walmart campaign. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Huge union no longer backing anti-Walmart group

Sean Higgins · April 6, 2016 9:00 pm

The case involved decisions by Pennsylvania state courts that upheld the judgment in a lawsuit involving 187,000 Walmart employees and said they were denied paid rest breaks and ordered to work —œoff the clock.—? (AP Photo)

Supreme Court deals Walmart a blow in class-action case

Sean Higgins · April 4, 2016 6:31 pm

Walmart Pulls the Plug on D.C.

Jim Swift · January 20, 2016 6:57 pm

The UFCW funds groups that are trying to unionize the retail giant's employees. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

Former Walmart board member Clinton wins backing of Walmart critic

Sean Higgins · January 12, 2016 10:37 pm

"Our goal is that all families ... have better schools," said Marc Sternberg, who directs the K-12 spending. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

Beltway Confidential

Walmart heirs commit $1 billion to school choice

Jason Russell · January 8, 2016 5:01 am